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Mountain Medicine on Skis wrapped up on the weekend. 7 delegates enjoyed 6 days of guided ski tuition, including 2 of challenging ski touring, across 5 ski domains (in Chamonix, Italy and Megeve and beyond) with 3 WMT instructors. The skiing was complimented by incisive environmental medicine lectures, practical sessions and avalanche safety tutorials. See the Instagram posts for an extensive collection of photos. @wildmedtraining 

The next Chamonix course is Expedition Medicine 28 Feb – 4 March. Places still available. Details and online booking here.

We have reinstated these course dates and few places are still available at short notice on Mountain Medicine on Skis for those ski medics who are agile enough to join us Sunday 23 January in Chamonix for a brilliant week of skiing on and off piste, an intro to ski touring and a suite of engaging medical tutorials on the mountain and in the comfy course chalet. Check out the webpage for full details and the minimum ski standard required.

Brits can now travel to France so we are trying to reinstate the cancelled 23-30 January Mountain Medicine on Skis course in Chamonix. The deadline for comfirming the viability of the course is Saturday morning 15 January – time is tight! Flights are cheap. Only a lateral flow test required for travel France. Must be triple jabbed. Interest is encouraging. Chalet accommodation, 6 days of guided skiing and tuition, mountain-side and evening medical tutorials in the chalet and in-resort transport included. Minimum strong red run ski standard required. General details on the website at the course title link above but it’s not live to book and these dates aren’t listed. Please email WMT without delay to express an interest.

Ski safety advice and knowledge, great videos, course news and more are packed into The Snowsports Edition. Be inspired by WMT alumna Katy Plant’s wonderful story about working as a ski field doctor in New Zealand, learn how skis are handmade by Ronin and find details of how you can boost your mountain medicine cred and ski in Chamonix with WMT on Mountain Medicine on Skis 23-30 January and Expedition Medicine 28 Feb – 4 March.

Two places have become available on Far From Help at Glenmore Lodge 4-5 December. Go directly to Glenmore’s website to book here.

The latest newsletter is packed with diverse news, events, travel planning documents, videos, course dates and updates including new dates just announced for Mountain Medicine on Skis 23-30 January. Read it here to find out the significance of this screenshot of Pelagic Expeditions’s website!

Running 23-30 January, a 3rd Mountain Medicine on Skis course is being offered that includes twin-room accommodation at a luxury Chamonix chalet (with a hot tub). Join us for 6 days of guided ski tuition on and off piste including an intro to ski touring, and mountainside medical training followed by après ski medical tutorials that cover the essential range of environmental wilderness medicine topics. The mountains beckon. Let’s answer the call. Limited to 10 places (and selling fast). Full details and online booking here.

We’ve produced this table to help ski doctors choose a Chamonix winter course. Please also see this special announcement with all the links to each course page. Download the table at this link WMT Chamonix course comparison table v1.0 

Two more dates have been added! A NEW innovative, luxury chalet-based course for medics runs 23-30 January – Adventure Medicine on Skis, Skins & Crampons. The Castle chalet, out course basecamp, is pictured below.

Then 28 February – 4 March we welcome the largest course group of the year to Expedition Medicine. Both courses include loads of ski time, excellent tuition, adventure and fun. Click on the course page titles to visit the web pages for details, fees and the programme or see this special announcement which summarises all the winter Chamonix ski-based course options. We hope to see you in Chamonix.

Far From Help runs in Bristol 20-21 November with Far From Help Part 2/Advanced Refresher being offered in the same St Werburghs Centre non-residential venue the following weekend – 27-28 November. Click on the course titles to visit the respective web pages for details. Attend BOTH COURSES to achieve the ADVANCED MEDICINE gold-standard status or start with Far From Help. To clarify elegibility or FFH 2 – anyone who last attended FFH, FFH Part 2 or the Advanced course in spring 2019 or later is eligible to attend FFH Part 2 before the end of 2021. The Explorer courses at Glenmore Lodge in December are mostly over-subscribed so we are hopeful these new course dates will help satify demand as our clients get re-tooled for next years’ overseas adventures.